Day 15 Preddvor Loop
In bright red letters the preamble for this hike read, "Please only do this longer route in perfect and dry weather!" They even said please. The r ain stopped almost 24 hours ago, so we went. It was treacherous. The route went as follows: Preddvor (a town) up a STEEP climb to St. Jacob's Church (closed, but tea available at the attached hut), to a peak (X marks the spot, fogged in and cold!), across a ridge (one-foot-wide walkway with steep drops on both sides), to a mountain hut (also closed, no tea here), back down STEEP trails (wet tree roots, loose gravel, no fun) to a couple of villages (smiling people, friendly dogs, beautiful gardens 😃) to the pension (we were virtually crawling). Had the fog rolled away, giving us the incredible views reported by previous travelers, I'd have a different report. As it was, this is definitely a been-there-done-that experience. The conditions were still too wet for us to enjoy, but it was a good, hard wo...